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House of Romanov
- Peter II of RussiaPeter II Alexeyevich arrived in Saint Petersburg on the 23rd of October 1715. His mother Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg died just ten days after…
- Elizabeth of RussiaElizabeth was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia, on the 18th of December 1709. Her parents were Peter the Great and Catherine, a former maid who had…
- Anna of RussiaAnna was born in Moscow as the daughter of Tsar Ivan V and his wife Praskovia Saltykova. Her father co-ruled Russia with his half-brother Peter the Great…
- Catherine I of RussiaMarta Helena Skowrońska was born on the 15th of April 1684 in the eastern parts of the former Polish, Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Alexis of RussiaOn the 12th of July 1645, Tsar Michael died in Moscow. His sixteen-year-old son Alexei Mikhailovich ascended to the throne that same day.
- Peter the GreatPeter grew up at Izmaylovo Estate, where his education began under tutors commissioned by his father. Nikita Zotov, Patrick Gordon, and Paul Menesius taught…
- House of RomanovOn the 21st of February 1613, a sixteen-year-old boy named Mikhail Romanov burst into tears of fear and despair while sitting at the Ipatiev Monastery in…